Human Rights Watch published a report on the ongoing severe sexual assualt in Syrian detention. Sexual assault is not only aimed at women, but at men and children too. May Allah protect all against these horrific crimes, and bring the perpetrators to justice.

Sharifah binti Hussein is a young Rohingya refugee from Burma in Malaysia, where she hopes to stay forever. Malaysia, however, does not recognize the United Nations Convention on Refugees and is known for ill-treating its asylum seekers.

Tajik mullahs warn against a rise in temporary marriages, which are illegal in Tajikistan and are considered a result of a sizeable Iranian Shi’a community (temporary marriage is considered to be lawful according to Shi’a Islam) and the dire poverty in which many people, and women in particular, find themselves.